MS-02 Ultra

Some other cool options at 3-4L are: •Lenovo Thinkstation P360 Ultra or P3 ultra •HP Z2 Mini G9 worktation But again, the same rule applies here: only if you can find them second hand or refurbished (for a reasonable price). Because new ones are always ridiculously expensive. If you don't need a nam

Minisforum MS-A2 has 2xSFP+ & the MS-02 Ultra has 2xSFP28 SFP+! They also have a single slot half height PCI slot. The MS-02 Ultra definitely fits your bill as it has 4 or 5 nvme slots? 2 are built into the SFP28 adapter.

I just got the MINISFORUM MS-02 Ultra Workstation Mini PC w Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX barebones. It's a 1 Liter form factor and you can add the MSI Gaming RTX 3050 LP 6G to it or Intel ARC Low Profile GPU. I like this larger than usual MiniPC for its cooling, relative silence, connectivity, and expan

If the Arc B50 Pro has to live inside the box, the MINISFORUM MS 02 Ultra Workstation Mini PC makes sense. It has the PCIe and 350W PSU shape, but I would still verify SR IOV before buying.

I think it's the only model on market in M.2 format. Price is normal for any 10Gb card right now. As a note MINISFORUM MS-S1 Max and MS-02 ULTRA have build in 2x ports using this chipset, but it's not an M.2 module. Works fine in Windows and Linux kernel 6.17 and higher.

Thank you very much for your time and effort with this comprehensive review. I was looking at these idle power draws and report 35.9w (and 55.4w with the 25gbe nics): https://nascompares.com/2025/12/29/minisforum-ms-02-ultra-pc-review/#Minisforum_MS-02_Ultra_Review_-_Speed_Noise_Heat_and_Power_Tests While win

MiniPC may only have 1 oculink port so you may be able to use this port for an external GPU enclosure. There are also MiniPC with thunderbolt port so you can use an external GPU enclosure that support thunderbolt as well. I am not sure but there may be some supporting both oculink and thunderbolt -

I was considering the MS-02 Ultra and in fact obtained 64GB of DDR5 Sodimm already but hold on to the idea after I saw a few posts about Minisforum quality control issues.

There are GPUs like the RTX 4000 Blackwell, which even has 24 GB of VRAM. The question for me is more like how well other cards with the same form factor fit into the case. Minisforum now somehow has the bad habit of selling any PCI cards instead of really selling pure barebones. My MS-02 Ultra has

Oh really? I missed those announcements... Anyway yea the MS-02 Ultra has 4 total but 2 of those are on the back of the motherboard and (I assume) would have terrible cooling and wouldn't fit a heatsink. I was thinking maybe I can get a 4x4x4x4 adapter card and populate 3 of the 4 slots (due to the